Rivers of the Underground 2001

Boom Shed, Fort Hill Wharf, Darwin

This preformance took a strongly Indian flavour with Sidharth Vemuri as the young man and Rukshana Ramachandran as the cohort. Rivers of the Underground was remounted and reworked in 2002.

June 5 - 9

Director’s Notes

The question of what happens after we die is probably the oldest question in the world and many belief systems and attached mythologies have arisen over millennia. By exploring these myths and beliefs we can look for meaning Mythology helps us engage with our world and has thousands of years of wisdom encapsulated in single stories. In the case of the mythology surrounding the afterlife it also helps us disengage with our world. It gives us an understanding of the invisible plane that supports the visible, assisting us by giving suggestions and guiding our passage through life - and beyond. The body is viewed as a vehicle through life, encapsulating consciousness. We find out that death is life and life is death, and the two are in accord. There must be a balance between death and life - they are two aspects of the same thing. Darwin, as a crossroad of culture is also a crossroad of mythology and Rivers of the Underground explores these crossroads, these beliefs that guide us in our everyday life.